Flashes or sparkles with brilliant light; exhibits a bright, glittering quality.
Third-person singular present of coruscare (Latin). The verb form describing the ongoing or habitual action of coruscating, the shining quality attributed to bright objects.
In Victorian literature, writers would describe diamonds as coruscating to evoke that sense of expensive luxury—today we might just say 'sparkly,' but the old word carries more poetic weight.
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